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Delve & The Office Graph: A Crash Course

Paul OlenickDirector, Product Strategy

About the presenter

Paul OlenickDirector of Product Strategy, AvePoint

paul.olenick@avepoint.comolenicksharepoint.com@OlenickSP

https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulolenick

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Polls

Agenda

Important Resources

Building Custom Solutions on the Office Graph

What is the Office Graph?What is Delve?

Wrap-Up / Q&A

Business Impact

What’s the problem?Volume of information Multitude of Systems

and LocationsDistributed Teams

What Is Delve?

Delve is Microsoft’s Answer

New people profile page

New way to organize and curate content

Quick access to your work

Automatically surface most relevant content

Quickly scan what’s happening in the

company

Provides quick access to people

Delve Demo

Delve interface reviewCards Fancy search resultsBoards Collection of cardsViews Search resultsImages Mined from contentNew Profile page

Replaces MySite profile page

UI/UX Borrows from latest trendsDelve App “Simple” first app built on Office

Graph

Primary Limitations and Roadmap• Content has to be in O365• One Drive for Business• SharePoint Online• Limited Yammer Content

• Shows last 3 months• Specific to certain O365 Plans• Enterprise E1 – E4 subscription plans, Office 365 Business Essentials and Business

Premium

• Office 365 Video content• Exchange Online attachments• Coming soon: OneNote, SP Sites, Visio

What is the Office Graph?

What is the Office Graph• Underlying service in O365• Captures interactions between users and objects

Edges (relationships/interactions)

Action Types

Logical Architecture

Graph Query Language (GQL)

Currently only means of interacting

with the Graph

QueriesRecently announced and coming soon…• New way to query the graph via Unified API• Push API to get outside sources into the graph

Announced at this conferene!• On-prem content via Hybrid Search Connector• aka.ms/graphsearch

How Delve uses Office Graph“canned” queries

Business Impact

Business impact

• No longer need to remember where everything is

• More efficient• Connects users to content

you may not have otherwise seen

• What’s this new thing?• Why do I have another

profile page?• How do I create a board?• What is a board?• Why does Delve look

different for me than for her?

• Is it safe?

• Will people see my private content?

• Sensitive content• Real & Perceived risks• Security Through Obscurity

Value Add to Users Communications / Training Communications / Training

More on Privacy and Compliance• Security through Obscurity problem

You have access to this sensitive content,

but you shouldn’t

But it’s unlikely you’ll ever see it

• Already a problem with Search?•How about Content Stewardship?

Opting Out• Tenant-level (opting out of Office Graph)• All or nothing from tenant level (turns off Office Graph entirely)

• Individual users can opt out• Use HideFromDelve tag to hide pieces of SharePoint content• Create Site Column called HideFromDelve• Map to Managed Property called HideFromDelve• Configure metadata for individual docs

Polls

Interesting Options?•Hide content from Delve based on:• Sensitive content (PII, etc.)• Location• Data security categorization• Content lifecycle• Legal Hold•Hide people from delve based on:• AD group• Security clearance• Job title

Build your own apps

Graph Customization Fundamentals“canned”

queries

/_api/search/query?QueryTemplate='((NOT (HideFromDelve:True OR OnHold:True)) AND (FileExtension:doc OR FileExtension:docx OR FileExtension:ppt OR FileExtension:pptx OR FileExtension:xls OR FileExtension:xlsx OR FileExtension:pdf OR ContentTypeId:0x010100F3754F12A9B6490D9622A01FE9D8F012* OR contentclass:ExternalLink))'&Properties='TitleBasedSummaries:true,IncludeExternalContent:true,GraphQuery:or(and(actor(me\,action\:1003)\,actor(me\,or(action\:1003\,action\:1036\,action\:1037\,action\:1039\,action\:1052\,action\:1047\,action\:1048)))\,actor(me\,action\:1047))'&SelectProperties='Author,AuthorOwsUser,ContentClass,ContentTypeId,Created,DefaultEncodingURL,DocId,DocumentPreviewMetadata,Edges,EditorOwsUser,FileExtension,FileType,HitHighlightedProperties,HitHighlightedSummary,LastModifiedTime,ListID,ListItemID,MediaDuration,OriginalPath,Path,PictureThumbnailURL,PrivacyIndicator,Rank,SPWebUrl,SecondaryFileExtension,ServerRedirectedPreviewURL,ServerRedirectedURL,SitePath,SiteTitle,Title,ViewCountLifetime,siteID,uniqueID,webID'&SortList='LastModifiedTime:descending'&RowLimit=36&ClientType='PulseWebModified'&BypassResultTypes=true&EnableQueryRules=false&ProcessBestBets=false&ProcessPersonalFavorites=false HTTP/1.1

Helpful tools•Office Graph Query Tester (Mavention)• http://blog.mastykarz.nl/mavention-office-graph-query-

tester-office-store/

• Search Query Tool by (Mikael Svenson)• http://sp2013searchtool.codeplex.com/

• Fiddler

Programming against Office Graph•Only GQL today – no CRUD yet•Must get creative•Things are changing fast!•See Ignite content on Channel9, etc.

Graph Mobile App Demos

Delve surfaces things we’re connected to…• Taking it one step further…

What topics are trending?• Content Delve says is important

Sales PitchContosoTransactional MatrixProductSoutheastResearchNortheastEducationFinancial CrisisJapanLiquidity

• Extracted topics

Suggest people and documentsAsk me

about Sales Pitches

Sales Pitch

Contoso

Transactional Matrix

ProductSoutheas

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Research

Northeast

Education

Financial Crisis Japan

Liquidity

Mobile, Cortana & Data visualizations

My World Mobile App

Free App

Delve for On-Prem

Delve for On-Prem Content• Announced at this Conference• Available by way of cloud hybrid search and the “Cloud Search Service Application” (2013, 2016)• Only available in Delve “search”, not as cards

Fileshares

SP 2013 Cloud SSA

SPOSearch Farm

SP 2013 content SP 2010 content

On-premises

Office 365

SPO content

Wrap up

Key Takeaways• Exciting new technology – Microsoft is betting on it!• Expect more Graph-driven experiences in O365• Not too exciting if not using O365 for important data• Delve and the Graph are changing rapidly!• Limited, but cool opportunities to customize if you get creative• Compliance and Privacy concerns may hurt adoption• New MSFT iOS and Andriod Apps (not Windows yet)• See on-prem content in Delve (limited)

Useful links• How Delve Knows w

hat’s Important to Me

• How to find People and Information in Delve

• Description of Delve Feature Rollout

• Delve Group on Yammer

• SharePoint 2013 Search Query Tool

• Great blog on programming against GQL by Richard diZerega

• Graph Query Tester

• @OfficeDelve

Q&Apaul.olenick@avepoint.comolenicksharepoint.com@OlenickSP